{"id":10580,"date":"2019-09-15T20:40:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T01:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10580"},"modified":"2019-09-15T20:40:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T01:40:28","slug":"start-with-the-low-hanging-dna-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/15\/start-with-the-low-hanging-dna-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Start with the Low-Hanging DNA Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When starting with an analysis of DNA matches, it can be tempting to work on solving that &#8220;brick wall&#8221; problem right away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That might be a mistake. Two good approaches are to sort out the low-hanging genealogical fruit&#8211;those matches that are easy to figure out. This should be done even if the family some of these matches are related on are not the &#8220;brick wall&#8221; family. The other approach is to sort out matches on those families where you already &#8220;know everything.&#8221; This can be a good way to improve your DNA analysis skills in order to help you work on your true brick wall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When starting with an analysis of DNA matches, it can be tempting to work on solving that &#8220;brick wall&#8221; problem right away. That might be a mistake. Two good approaches are to sort out the low-hanging genealogical fruit&#8211;those matches that are easy to figure out. This should be done even if the family some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}